The German singer Nico got her start as a model and actress before turning to music, singing with the Velvet Underground for an album before embarking on a solo career....
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The Next 10 Albums, for My Top 30 Albums of 1968 1968 seems to me a pretty “flat” year in terms of quality, meaning that there are a lot of...
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Alternative rock starts here. On the band’s debut The Velvet Underground & Nico, Lou Reed’s stark, matter-of-fact lyrics and delivery evoke a dark realism in tales of hustlers and addicts,...
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1967. The Summer of Love. People who get their thrills yammering on about which year was the greatest in rock history often fall back on 1967, and for good reason....
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The Next 100 Albums, for My Top 200 of the '60s (Part 3, 1967-1968) Jump to the playlist at the bottom of each post to listen while you read. Within...
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The Sixties—when the modern era of rock music began, when the idea of pop music as an art form, rather than just a diversion, first took shape. No era is...
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